Hour of the ox /Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (viii, 62 pages)
- Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Anti-Elegy ; I ; Old Country, New World ; Disconsolate Brother Returns as Penumbra ; Postmarked ; Bonsai ; Restitution for the Grandson ; All the Sheep Have Scattered ; Invocation ; Happiness ; Oath ; Cultivation ; Herdboy and Weaver From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Brother Returns as Chrysanthemum ; History ; Generosity ; Your Mouth Is Full of Birds ; In Season ; The Last Supper ; II ; Ode to Hunger ; Brother Returns as Octopus ; The Sea Urchin ; Haenyeo: Image of the Pearl Diver The Pearl Divers' Daughters The Asked-For Day ; Penance ; Last Half of a Letter from Home ; Apodyopsis ; Storm Elegy ; Diffusion ; Remedies for Grieving ; Brother Returns as Sunflower ; Vase of Ashes ; Apperception ; Brother Who Does Not Surface Sijo for Early Spring, Year of the Boar Returning Home ; Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo ; Notes ; Acknowledgments
"Hour of the Ox examines the multiplicity of distance, wanderlust, and grief at the intersection between filial and cultural responsibility. Desires are sloughed off, replaced by new ones, re-cultivated as mythos. These poems offer a complex and necessary new perspective on the elegiac immigrant song."